Translating front page meta tags

You can not translate meta tags.

Have you found any solution for this problem? 1 year later I am still having the same problem

Hello,

I had the same problem and found a solution using http://drupal.org/project/variable, http://drupal.org/project/token and a custom module.

mymodule.variable.inc

/**
 * @file
 * Variable API module. Definition for some xample variables
 */

/**
 * Implements hook_variable_info().
 */
function mymodule_variable_info($options) {
  // Simple text
  $variables['ic_meta_front_title'] = array(
    'type' => 'text',
    'title' => t('Frontpage title', array(), $options),
    'default' => 'Welcome to Independence Hotel, Resort and Spa Sihanoukville Cambodia',
    'description' => t('Set html title tag for the frontpage.', array(), $options),
    'required' => TRUE,
    'token' => TRUE,
    'group' => 'ic_frontpage_meta',
  );
  $variables['ic_meta_front_description'] = array(
    'type' => 'text',
    'title' => t('Frontpage meta description', array(), $options),
    'default' => 'Independence Hotel Sihanoukville. A luxury resort in Cambodia. 35ha landscape, 200m private beach, spa, pool villa, deluxe suite weddings, seminar...',
    'description' => t('Set meta description tag.', array(), $options),
    'required' => TRUE,
    'token' => TRUE,
    'group' => 'ic_frontpage_meta',
  );

  $variables['ic_meta_views_description'] = array(
    'type' => 'text',
    'title' => t('Meta description for views', array(), $options),
    'default' => 'Independence Hotel and Spa Sihanoukville Cambodia.',
    'description' => t('Set meta description tag.', array(), $options),
    'required' => TRUE,
    'token' => TRUE,
    'group' => 'ic_frontpage_meta',
  );
  
  return $variables;
}

/**
 * Implements hook_variable_group_info().
 */
function mymodule_variable_group_info() {
  $groups['ic_frontpage_meta'] = array(
    'title' => t('Frontpage meta tags'),
    'description' => t('Variables for frontpage meta tag.'),
    'access' => 'administer site configuration',
    'path' => array('admin/config/system/variable/frontpage_meta'),
  );
  return $groups;
}

mymodule.module

/**
 * @file
 * Code taken from variable example.
 */

/**
 * Implements hook_variable_realm_info()
 */
function mymodule_variable_realm_info() {
  $realm['frontpage_meta'] = array(
    'title' => t('Frontpage meta data'),
    'weight' => 10,
    'store class' => 'VariableStoreRealmStore',
    'keys' => array(
      'first' => t('Frontpage meta'),
      'second' => t('Frontpage meta 2'),
    ),
  );
  return $realm;
}

/**
 * Implements hook_menu().
 */
function mymodule_menu() {
  $items['admin/config/system/frontpage_variable'] = array(
    'title' => 'Frontpage meta data',
    'description' => 'Set title and meta description for frontpage.',
    'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
    'page arguments' => array('variable_group_form', 'ic_frontpage_meta'),
    'access arguments' => array('administer site configuration'),
  );
  $items['variable/frontpage_meta'] = array(
    'title' => 'Frontpage meta',
    'description' => 'List frontpage meta variables.',
    'page callback' => 'ic_frontpage_meta_page_list',
    'access arguments' => array('administer site configuration'),
  );
  $items['variable/realm/%/%'] = array(
    'title' => 'Frontpage realms',
    'description' => 'Frontpage exemple realms.',
    'page callback' => 'ic_frontpage_meta_page_realm',
    'page arguments' => array(2, 3),
    'access arguments' => array('administer site configuration'),
  );
  return $items;
}

/**
 * Variable example realm page.
 *
 * Will switch to given realm and display variables.
 */
function mymodule_page_list() {
  variable_include();
  $list = variable_list_group('site_information') + variable_list_group('ic_frontpage_meta');
  foreach ($list as $name => $variable) {
    $build[$name] = array(
      '#type' => 'item',
      '#title' => $variable['title'],
      '#markup' => variable_format_value($variable),
    );
  }
  return $build;
}

/**
 * Variable example realm page.
 *
 * Will switch to given realm and display variables.
 */
function mymodule_page_realm($realm, $key) {
  // Initialize realm from variable store.
  $variables = variable_store($realm, $key);
  // Set at least one variable for the realm
  $variables += array('site_name' => 'Variable example realm');
  variable_realm_add($realm, $key, $variables);
  variable_realm_switch($realm, $key);
  return variable_example_page_list();
}

Admin settings

1. Go to admin/config/regional/i18n/variable and tick your variables.
2. Go to admin/config/system/frontpage_variable and set your tags in your different languages
3. Go to admin/config/search/metatags and use the token [variable:ic_meta_front_description] for frontpage settings

Hope it helps.

You can do this using the Internationalization module (i18n). The module comes with a bunch of small submodules, including String Translation (string_i18n).

If you enable that module you will see an option to translate your metatags if you go to admin/config/search/metatags

Hope this helps.